Program Management Manager

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Job Summary





To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Program Manager located on Flex Guadalajara.

Reporting to the VP, Program Management the The Program Manager manages and oversees the end-to-end product lifecycle for a manufacturing program, ensuring that production, quality, safety, and cost targets are met. The Program Manager is accountable for maintaining efficient manufacturing operations to meet internal and customer expectations. This role focuses on achieving high levels of forecast accuracy, managing manufacturing costs, and project timelines aligned with the overall manufacturing capacity for a customer program. This role requires a strategic leader who can effectively manage resources with cross-functional teams, optimize operational processes, and drive continuous improvement initiatives to maximize customer satisfaction and manufacturing performance.

What a typical day looks like:

• Interfacing with customers, including solving customer problems, building relationships, and managing escalations.
• Leading successfully small to medium-sized projects with cross-functional teams from initiation to completion in a fast-moving environment.
• Participating in project planning sessions and contributing to timelines and deliverables.
• Participating in cross-departmental teams to deliver projects or initiatives.
• Facilitating meetings between different teams to ensure alignment.
• Effectively presenting project updates to stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Preparing reports or presentations summarizing project progress and outcomes.
• Participating in lean initiatives.
• Lead cross-functional teams (CFT), coordinating efforts across different departments.
• Responsible for delivering the manufacturing cost committed to the forecast. Monitor financial performance, report on Manufacturing cost FCST variances, and drive actions for improvement.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring they are completed on time and within Manufacturing cost FCST. Define and manage project scope, goals, timelines, and deliverables.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain management, Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, or related field.
• Manufacturing/industrial industry in supply chain, engineering and finance, and operation planning positions.
• Understanding of key financial indicators and their implications on profit and loss statements and balance sheets. Possesses in-depth knowledge of budgeting/forecasting, cost control, and cash management
• Understands contracts, including commercial (price, delivery, obligations, warranty, scope, etc.) supply chain and legal terms.
• Knows manufacturing processes, including KPIs, deliverables, quality, supply chain management (Site inventory, turns, efficiency and optimization around warehousing), production capabilities (human, machine, materials - Bill of Material Pricing & Approved Vendor List), resource management, and continuous improvement to ensure on time delivery and customer.
• Advanced English
• Willingness to travel

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Competitive Salary.
• Life & Medical insurance.
• Christmas Bonus.
• Food Coupons.
• Saving Fund.

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Job Category

Operations

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